Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-02

unlened, or 10 IN The course OF cOnstrnc-
tion. The fair will be q grand success IN
every particular.
Relative to Northwestern trains
nothing definite has been learned this
afternoon and there il some doubt about
their punetual arrival. The Milwaukee
train for the north left here this after
noon behind a SNOW pillow and. had not
moi been heard from up to fGu. O'Clock.
The Milwaukee train from the north
passed Scotland at 2 p. M.
President Cleveland yesterday APP
polluted Father Willard, Of Yaukton, a
commissioner to select a diminished res.
ervatIon for the c~onfederated bands OF
Cayuse, Wslls Walla and Umatilla
Indians, vice William PearsoDs, whose
commission is revoked. This is an APP
pointmens well bestowed. Father Will
lard will perform his duties faithfully
and conseientiously.
The first month of official work for
the Yankton county officers installed
during the fore part Of January has been
one OF unusual activity. Sheriff Kincel
and Deputy Branch have besn CONSTANT
iy on the jump. Justice Congleton's
office has been the scene OF a number of
important preliminary proceedings, and
Treasurer Ellermsn, Register OF Deeds
Hameistey, and CLERK Hage have been
kept steadily at their desks.
Msjor Murphy is stalwart in tenn
perance as we'll as in several other spe-
c~lalties. A propositlon was made the
other day to run the Yankton temper
ance sessions into the revival field, but
Murphy stood up apdsat down upon it
in q brief but positive delineation of the
situation. He said he had learned from
experience that when the devil was get
ting the worst of a fight he always
favored q change Of front and g new base.
This closed the discussion.
Sheriff Kincei returned from Mitchell
last night. having in charge Ed. Smith,
after whom he went and against whom
there is an indictment standing IN Yank-
ton county for petty larceny. Smith
was captured in Mitchell recently with
a gang Of burglars and he had just been
discharged from the justice court in
Mitchell when Sheriff Kinoel nabbsd
him. Smith Immediately squealed on
other parties and gave o recent job Of
burglary in Mitchell entirely away.
Smith is an oily youth. and will bssr
constant Watching. He languishes in
the Yankton county Jail.
DR.. j. B. Van Velsor gave q most in
teresting temrs.snce discourse at the
Congregational church last night, chooc-
ing for his subject the use OF alcohol in
medicine, Q theme which has never be-
fore been publicly discussed In this city
and n which will always entertain the
public. ID. Ven Yeisc., being ons of DDs-
kota's leading physicians, is particularly
fitted for treating such q subject, and
bis last nights address possessed more
than the usual amount OF attraotivenesa.
Mrs. Joseph Ward was another speaker
whose remarks commanded attention.
Tonight every n in the city who 10
interested in the Temperance work is re-
quested to be present and take part, as
there is q possibility that the meetings
will be discontinued after tonight.
Weather succeeds weather this winter
and to-day there is more OF it. There is
some variety in the seasons allowance.
One day the frigidity 10 accompanied by
q bowling blizzard and another day
brings calm, serene but infexible
polarity. To-day We have had a touch
of the b,izzard's breath and ont on the
prairie the maddening waves Of snow
have dashed high and scnrried along
necessarily. Railroads have suffered
some, but trains have managed to strug-
gle through. Travellers from the north
tell Of snow drifts train high on either
side Of the railroad tracks and the open
ings through these nos piles is filed by
q light wind. In this condition block
AIDES are liable to occur without much
p%rovocation. This was the 81 condition,
when nearly every rail- line in Dakota
was compelled to suspend traffic for
weeks. From the Northern Missouri
slope come accounts OF another blizzard
Monday, with wind at se%venty.fve miles
an hour at Bismarck. When the spring
thaws come the Missouri will boom.
The preliminary examination, before
Judge Congleton, of Frederick Jassman,
charged by Rosina Gaier with seduction,
resulted in the retention OF the defend
ami, for the sotiol of the grand n:yy He
failed to secure the $1,000 bail required
and was placed in jail, The examination
produced evidence not at ell complimen.
tary to the defendant. The complaining
witness became an inmate OF the family
OF Jassman's father, who lives in north
Yankton county, about q year ago as o
domestic, under an agreement to work
out an indebtedness due hes employer.
It was while serving in this capacity
that that the defendant gained her pom
idence and under promise Of marriage
accomplished her ruin. The girl's story
is q sorrowful one and does not show up
young Jassman 10 o very enviable light.
The penalty in cases OF this nature can
be placed IS high as five years imprison-
ment and 9 Thousand dollars fine and il
the facts show on trial as they now APP
near. The inati0a makad ont To unnnn